Oct27

May your lamps burn brighter

Here’s wishing everyone a very happy Diwali and bright and prosperous New Year ahead. May your lamps burn ever brighter today and evermore. May Laxmi enter your lives without taking up the room that Saraswati must occupy.
This year, with the markets in a nosedive, it may be that you will light a few lamps less, […]

Sep29

Nine nights of rapture

Here’s wishing everyone a very happy Navratri. Just as on St. Patrick’s Day, everyone’s Irish, during Navratri, we are all Gujju. For while it is celebrated in many parts of the country, no one does Navratri with as much panache as the Gujaratis. I recall wheedling out passes to some of the more well-appointed Navratri […]

Sep12

Onashamsakal

Here’s wishing all our Keralite friends a very happy Onam! May this, the harvest festival, herald a harvest of fortune and felicity in your lives.
Desi friends and relatives who have lived abroad for many years tell me that Indian festivals used to be rather difficult to celebrate outside India. Barring a few major north Indian festivals (Navrathri, […]